In the catalog since 19.08.2026
Qwen Chat
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Alibaba's AI assistant powered by Qwen models: chat, document analysis, image generation and editing, plus voice and video modes. Access is free, with no required subscription.
Facts
- The vendor is Alibaba Cloud, the cloud division of Alibaba Group (Hangzhou, China). The chat runs on chat.qwen.ai and is free to use; features include chat, image and video understanding, image generation and editing, document handling, tool calling, voice and video chat, and artifacts.
- The brand was consolidated under one name: on 02/05/2026 Alibaba announced the unification of all AI products under the Qwen brand; on 03/02/2026, the old name "Tongyi Qianwen" was retired and the consumer app was renamed Qwen. As of 08/19/2026, the web chat itself at chat.qwen.ai is labeled Qwen Studio.
- The 2026 flagships are set: Qwen3.7-Max (text, reasoning, agent tasks) and Qwen3.7-Plus (multimodal agent, GA from 01.06.2026) were introduced at Alibaba Cloud Summit on 20.05.2026 and are available only via API, without open weights, unlike the previous open lineup. As of 19.08.2026, the web chat runs on Qwen3.7-Plus.
- Scale after the rebrand (according to industry reviews, checked 19.08.2026): a peak of 73,52 million daily app users during the 2026 Spring Festival, over 700 million downloads of open Qwen models on Hugging Face — more than Llama.
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